Here we go with the first Draw Something. The above drawing was drawn by one of the following: Jason Chatfield Mike Cope Stacy Curtis Chris Eliopoulos Shannon Wheeler Objective:Guess the word the artist is trying to communicate using the letters provided below the drawing.Guess the artist who drew the drawing.Enter your guesses in the comments.

As I mentioned earlier, Draw Something is a new app that has become quite popular – one of the most played apps in the iTunes App Store (there is an Android version). Think of it as Pictionary with a friend on a phone (or an iPad).I asked a few notable cartoonists to play the game […]

Today’s Pajama Diaries – timed for “Take Your Son or Daughter or Other Underaged Dependent To Work Day” — brought a smile, coming as it did after a sourball article on the topic, which I read yesterday but now can’t find because it had been linked on Facebook, which means it has drifted away into the […]

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists annual convention will be held in Washington DC this year on September 13–15. This year’s convention will follow a somewhat different format than in the past. Thursday and Friday will center on “#!&% CARTOONS: A Festival Celebrating the Political Cartoon.” The festival will feature “chalk talk” presentations by various […]

The Overseas Press Club of America has awarded this year’s Thomas Nast Award to Swiss cartoonist Patrick Chapatte who draws for the Geneva daily Le Temps and Zurich paper the NZZ am Sonntag. According to World Radio Switzerland, this is the first time a non-American has received the award.

Starting tomorrow, I’m kicking off a game here on The Daily Cartoonist. I’m sure many of you have heard of the app Draw Something (free and paid versions of iPad/iPhone and Android devices). Think of it as Pictionary on your phone with a friend. According to one source it took AOL nine years to acquire […]

Excellent article in the New York Times about the decline of the sports cartoon in newspapers. They blended the skills of a caricaturist and the mind-set of a columnist. They were entertainers and ink-stained jokesters. They were newsroom denizens and deadline artists who churned out five or six cartoons a week that received prominent display. […]

ND Mazin is a well-established cartoonist in South Africa but new to me and possibly new to you. However, he is just launching a new version of an old strip, Azaniamania, which makes it a good time to jump on and see where it’s going. (This is one time when clicking on the strip to […]

The webcomic Axe Cop has been picked up by the Fox Network for their Saturday Late Night programming. The network has ordered six 15-minute installments. From Variety: Weidenfeld, a former Adult Swim exec, had his eye on “Axe Cop” from the time he started scouting properties for Animation Domination HD earlier this year. The segs […]

Last week I linked to an article on Slate.com by Farhad Manjoo who argued that the Pulitzer Prize should be opened up to other graphical commentary – such as memes, infographics, etc. mostly because he felt single panel editorial cartoons are, “an increasingly timeworn form. Even the best ones traffic in blunt, one-dimensional jokes, rarely […]

Cartoons That Will Send Me Straight To Hell by Dan CollinsDan Collins, perhaps best known for his cartoons in Hustler magazine, has created an eBook and is releasing them in both through iBookstore (iPad) and Amazon (Kindle) . The book is entitled, “Cartoons That Will Send Me Straight To Hell” and contains 100+ pages of […]

Today, Joe Martin’s Willie & Ethel delivers an unintentional spot-on response to Slate’s … um … let me look it up … “Farhad Manjoo.”I’ve been a fan of Willie and Ethel for decades. I never heard of Farhad Manjoo until he wrote a commentary in Slate condemning the Pulitzer Prize committee for awarding a prize […]

Deep Shadows by Jerry ScottThe Tribune News asked Rubes cartoonist Leigh Rubin to interview Zits and Baby Blues writer Jerry Scott about his fine art exhibit coming up at The Frame Works Gallery in San Luis Obispo, CA. Q. In addition to the cartooning, you?re also a fine artist. How did that come about, and […]

When I first looked at today’s Rhymes with Orange, I thought it was going to be a riff on excessive government spending, tied in to the Secret Service scandal (such as it is) and the GSA scandal (which I’m tired of).There actually are secret government cafeterias, and the food there is reportedly rather above the […]